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Sunday sticker giveaway!! I’ve got 10 stickers in envelopes needing addresses. If you want one please like my Facebook page, following me on Twitter or Instagram and send me a photo of your truck. The first ten names will be the lucky ones and happy to post to anywhere in the world…..

So plenty more here to look through, I’ve received a few more since Part one. Plenty of Volvo, DAF, Mercedes-Benz and a few Scania. All high profile UK companies in this lot and all still doing continental. A fair reflection on how UK international transport has changed, all but a few doing other things instead of general haulage. As mentioned in Part 1 there is plenty of material in this lot for more blogs. Please comment below and please do scroll down to see everything. Drivers on this page please message me for your free TB sticker if you want one!

OMG! Lowrider Friday is a thing everybody. There was me thinking I’d only get a couple……38 photos and counting!! Lots of patterns and lots to talk about so lots of future blog material. I’ll do part two later this evening. If your truck is in these photos message me for your free TB sticker. Look out for the foreign entries and also the 6 wheelers from my ex employers!

There seems to be more than ever about at the moment. I want to do a Lowrider Friday tomorrow so get sending over your photos please. You can get me on all the normal channels, Facebook, Twitter, Instagramme or good old fashioned email! Come on LowRiders let’s see your trucks, I’m guessing most will be 4×2’s but extra points for 6×2’s!

I’ll never get bored of doing the blog as long as I keep receiving the odd email, once in a while that contains an absolute gem! I’ve always asked and I will keep asking for you to send in anything truck related and thankfully some of you still do, please keep doing so. This particular email came from Francis Whiting who previously has driven for H.T. Transport from Westbury in Wiltshire (GB). Having received the above photo from Francis of an amazing line up of Maquirus Deutz trucks parked up in the yard around 1980ish I asked a little more and got a little more back. Francis said;

“Hi Ben, I worked for H.T. throughout the 70s and early 80s, it was my first driving job, starting on a 7.5T box van. After passing my HGV I progressed on to artics and general haulage. This is a very grainy photo of the first sleeper cab I drove, taken in Rotterdam in 1978, happy days! Francis.”

Grainy or not, I’ve said it before, I’m not sure these photos would create or suggest such a nostalgic feeling if they were crystal clear digital photos that we all take today. Agree or disagree??

Anyway, thank you Francis it’s always a pleasure to see and hear of firms that are new to me. The beauty of the blog or perhaps I should say, the romance of the road is the amount of hauliers we used to have here in the UK turning a wheel with a great looking fleet. Probably talk of Wiltshire with a fleet of Maggie Deutz’s but may be not so familiar to those elsewhere. If you have any little snippets to share, hopefully with a grainy photo or two, please do email me. Most of you silver surfers can manage an email these days so don’t be shy, my email is; ben@truckblog.co.uk

Not such a dodgy title trust me. I was sent some photos from Gurdeep Singh on his travels around Sweden and as you can see his Actros is somewhat dirty. From this I thought I’d just ask you lot for some similar shots. I had a few come through but not so dirty for most, I’m guessing that could be down to us here in the UK having a slightly drier week than we’ve had for months! Any way next up is Graham Wilson with a nice shot of a couple of grubby toppers sitting in the sun. Almost a little artistic this one Graham.

More dirty tippers from Paul Wheatley and DE Contracting. I know what it’s like doing landfill work in an 8 wheelers and it would appear that spending your working week going in and out of Calvert Landfill is no different. By landfill we mean landfill sites, no roads just tracks, plenty of mud, dirt, water and what ever else. Landfill really does test the best of 8 wheelers and it’s hard graft on any make of truck.

The 143 might not look to dirty to most of you but if you’ve ever seen it at a show then you’ll know it is usually absolutely spotless. Owner Ian Maclean spotted here out on a road run with the big V8 and by his own admission it was filthy!

Mark Hunsley just wanted a little bit of fame for his new steed I think and I’m happy to honour him with some blog space. Marks just moved out of another German truck into the GigaSpace Actros and with a full, full white paint job she’s looks delightful. I’m sure she is dirty down either side so that earns the place on the blog!

So just a few dirty trucks but it’s a bit of fun. I have to say that I think Gurdeep Singh gets top marks as he is now wearing a TB sticker on his trailer and even through the dirt of Scandinavia he managed to get the sticker wiped clean, top work Gurdeep!!

Everyone likes a dirty Friday. The dirtier the better, please can you send over your end of week dirty truck photos please? If you’ve washed already send those over too then we can have a big old “The Week in Trucks”.